Routes

 
 

 

The 6 following routes of Lago Maggiore Bike Park are not very long routes and for this reason they are also ridable by not especially trained mountain bikers.

For each of them you can download the gps track. It's also available, at the bottom of this page, the download of the PDF guide, containing the road book for each route.

Legend: in the map, the sections in blue represent a trail or dirt road, those in red an asphalt road and the red square is the point of start/finish.

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Route n. 1 (gpx track)

Caronio - Chapel of Monte - Pollino’s Belvedere - Pond of Witches - SS. Trinity of Ghiffa - Ceredo - Cargiago - Caronio

Length: 12,6 km
Dirt road / trail: 86,5 %
Maximum height: 790 m
Accumulated climb: 440 m

Start from Caronio and taking the path n. 1 to Pollino we reach the camping area of Pollino. From here we head to the Pollino's Belvedere and then to the repeater, where we take the trail that leads down to the SS. Trinity of Ghiffa. From here we head towards Ceredo, then climb to Cargiago and then we return to Caronio.

 

Route n. 2 (gpx track)

Caronio - Chapel of Monte - Chapel of Porale - Cargiago - Caronio

Length: 8,6 km
Dirt road / trail: 94,2 %
Maximum height: 645 m
Accumulated climb: 300 m

Starting from Caronio we take the path n. 1 to Pollino. Arrived at the Chapel of Monte we climb along a portion of the archaeological route, then we take the trail coming down from the repeater of Pollino. We arrive, therefore, at the Chapel of Porale, we go down to Cargiago and then go back to Caronio.

 

Route n. 3 (gpx track)

SS. Trinity of Ghiffa - Ceredo - Cargiago - Caronio - Chapel of Porale - SS. Trinity of Ghiffa

Length: 7,4 km
Dirt road / trail: 78,4 %
Maximum height: 497 m
Accumulated climb: 147 m

From the SS. Trinity of Ghiffa we head towards Ceredo, then uphill to Cargiago. From Cargiago we up towards Caronio then we return to the SS. Trinity of Ghiffa.


 

Route n. 4 (gpx track)

SS. Trinity of Ghiffa - Chapel of Porale - Caronio - Pollino - Pollino’s Belvedere - Pond of Witches - Chapel of Porale - Ceredo - SS. Trinity of Ghiffa

Length: 13,9 km
Dirt road / trail: 87,8 %
Maximum height: 790 m
Accumulated climb: 440 m

From the SS. Trinity of Ghiffa we climb until we reach the Chapel of Porale. From here we get to Caronio and then we take the path n. 1 to Pollino. Once in Pollino we reach the Pollino's Belvedere and then the repeater, from where we take the trail that goes down and after the Chapel of Porale, down to Ceredo. From Ceredo, then, we go back to SS. Trinity of Ghiffa.


 

Route n. 5 (gpx track)

Pollino - Pollino’s Belvedere - Usceno - Chapel of Monte - Caronio - Chapel of Monte - Pollino

Length: 10,1 km
Dirt road / trail: 90,1 %
Maximum height: 755 m
Accumulated climb: 310 m

From Pollino we head towards the Pollino's Belvedere, then we go towards to the repeater, but we deflecting downward in the direction of Usceno. From Usceno we go to take the path n. 1 that goes down to Caronio. Once at the Chapel of Monte we turn to climb along a portion of the archaeological route, then we go down to Caronio. From Caronio we take again the path n. 1 and go up to Pollino.

 

Route n. 6 (gpx track)

Pollino - Le Australie - Pollino - Bagno - Pollino - Pollino’s Belvedere - Pollino

Length: 8,1 km
Dirt road / trail: 83,9 %
Maximum height: 850 m
Accumulated climb: 246 m

From Pollino we climb to the top area and then we take the trail coming from Manegra. Then we go down to Pollino and then we climb along the trail that leads to Le Australie. From here we descend again to Pollino, then turn in the direction of Bagno, from where we go back to Pollino.

 

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(Cartography: "Carta Escursionistica Transfrontaliera" - Provincia Verbano Cusio Ossola)

 
     

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